Clafouti aux cerises

Baked cherry custard

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Preparation info
  • For

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Nobody Does it Better: Why French Cooking is still the best in the world

By Trish Deseine

Published 2007

  • About

Clafoutis is a sort of fluffy crêpe batter cooked with fruit, and as with so many other dishes, opinions differ about how it should be cooked. With this dessert everyone argues about whether you should stone the cherries and spare your teeth, or leave them whole for better taste, less work and a lot of more or less discreet stone-spitting into palms. Lazy as I am, I much prefer the stones in. This is a fantastic store-cupboard staple, as preserved cherries are juicier, and often better tast